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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45983)9/21/2002 9:11:30 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
John, why do you regard the UN Security Council as having more authority in foreign affairs than the US government? Did you or I ever vote for these people, or are they representatives of their governments, still mostly dictatorships? For the love of pete, why do you think that emasculating the government of the United States in favor of the UN Security Council would be an advance for either law or security? Does their track record inspire confidence?

Nor did anyone in the world vote for the US to run roughshod into preemptive action without it's having to make a case for that action. The only place such a case can be made today is in the UN.

Why has the US Congress been sent a Bush Iraqi resolution now rather than, say, February which is likely to be closer to any invasion date? November elections. Karl Rove.

And that argument stands unless the Bush folk advance a serious case for an immediate threat.

I seem to recall someone asking Andrew Card that, if the threat were so immediate, why the administration did not try to do something in August. His reply was a classic replay of the Win Smith "marketing" argument.

I am not arguing the US, via the Bush administration, does not have the right to defend itself. I am arguing that (a) the case has not been argued, and (b) since Bush argued that the case was actually Iraq's violation of UN resolutions, it has to be decided there.
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